Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett

It's not literally a memory in your muscles. It's a memory in your brain. Your brain is controlling your muscles. And so if you practice the same set of movements over and over and over again, you just get really efficient at them because your brain is able to predict better. Now, if you're somebody who's exercising because you wanna become healthier or you wanna lose weight or you, right?

It's not literally a memory in your muscles. It's a memory in your brain. Your brain is controlling your muscles. And so if you practice the same set of movements over and over and over again, you just get really efficient at them because your brain is able to predict better. Now, if you're somebody who's exercising because you wanna become healthier or you wanna lose weight or you, right?

You don't wanna practice the same exercise over and over and over again because you will be burning fewer calories because you're being efficient. That's the goal, right? So instead you do interval training. If somebody's calling out to you every 30 seconds a different set of movements and you can't predict what they are, then your brain will make a prediction. It'll be wrong.

You don't wanna practice the same exercise over and over and over again because you will be burning fewer calories because you're being efficient. That's the goal, right? So instead you do interval training. If somebody's calling out to you every 30 seconds a different set of movements and you can't predict what they are, then your brain will make a prediction. It'll be wrong.

You'll have to adjust. And so you end up burning more calories and you end up throwing yourself out of balance, which we call allostasis. So you become dysregulated and then your brain has to work to get itself back in again. And so that's a different kind of workout. These two different kinds of workouts are completely predicated on the fact that sometimes you want to be able to predict better.

You'll have to adjust. And so you end up burning more calories and you end up throwing yourself out of balance, which we call allostasis. So you become dysregulated and then your brain has to work to get itself back in again. And so that's a different kind of workout. These two different kinds of workouts are completely predicated on the fact that sometimes you want to be able to predict better.

Sometimes you want to be able to disrupt yourself and get back into the pocket quickly, right? So basically you're learning how to take in prediction error, signals you didn't predict, and adjust to them.

Sometimes you want to be able to disrupt yourself and get back into the pocket quickly, right? So basically you're learning how to take in prediction error, signals you didn't predict, and adjust to them.

I would say as a general principle, yes. There are a lot of, you know, the devil is in the details, right? But yeah, sure. So trauma is not something that happens in the world to you. Everything you experience is a combination of the remembered past and the sensory present. So there could be an adverse event that occurs. You're in an earthquake. Someone dies who's close to you.

I would say as a general principle, yes. There are a lot of, you know, the devil is in the details, right? But yeah, sure. So trauma is not something that happens in the world to you. Everything you experience is a combination of the remembered past and the sensory present. So there could be an adverse event that occurs. You're in an earthquake. Someone dies who's close to you.

Something bad happens to you. Someone hurts you in some way. There could be an adverse event that is not traumatic to you because you're not using past experiences to make sense of it as a trauma. On the other hand, something that could be like an everyday experience to somebody else, to you, it links to a set of memories that are very traumatic, were very traumatic.

Something bad happens to you. Someone hurts you in some way. There could be an adverse event that is not traumatic to you because you're not using past experiences to make sense of it as a trauma. On the other hand, something that could be like an everyday experience to somebody else, to you, it links to a set of memories that are very traumatic, were very traumatic.

Those events were very traumatic. And so to you, it is a trauma. So trauma is not an objective thing in the world. It's also not all in your head. Trauma is a property of the relation between what has happened to you in the past and what is occurring in the present. So here's an example.

Those events were very traumatic. And so to you, it is a trauma. So trauma is not an objective thing in the world. It's also not all in your head. Trauma is a property of the relation between what has happened to you in the past and what is occurring in the present. So here's an example.

There is an anthropologist who works at Emory University, and she studies people in a lot of different cultures, and she studies trauma in a lot of different cultures. And there was this one girl that she wrote about, a case study of a girl named Maria, who was a young adolescent girl. And she lived in a culture where it was more normative for men to

There is an anthropologist who works at Emory University, and she studies people in a lot of different cultures, and she studies trauma in a lot of different cultures. And there was this one girl that she wrote about, a case study of a girl named Maria, who was a young adolescent girl. And she lived in a culture where it was more normative for men to

physically, be very physical with women and girls. So in our culture, we would say it's physical abuse. But in her culture, this is just what men did. So her stepfather would slap her around, and she didn't like it, but she didn't show any sign of trauma. The way she made sense of it was that men are just assholes. It was very much a, this is not about me. This is about them.

physically, be very physical with women and girls. So in our culture, we would say it's physical abuse. But in her culture, this is just what men did. So her stepfather would slap her around, and she didn't like it, but she didn't show any sign of trauma. The way she made sense of it was that men are just assholes. It was very much a, this is not about me. This is about them.

It's not pleasant, but she slept okay. Her grades were okay in school. She had friends. She didn't have any signs of trauma at all. Then she watched Oprah. And she heard all of these women talk about having been the subject of physical abuse from their boyfriends or their fathers or their husbands. And she recognized the similarity in that.

It's not pleasant, but she slept okay. Her grades were okay in school. She had friends. She didn't have any signs of trauma at all. Then she watched Oprah. And she heard all of these women talk about having been the subject of physical abuse from their boyfriends or their fathers or their husbands. And she recognized the similarity in that.